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June 5, 2013

Countryy Editor

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Just good reading

Try a little

Take a

kindness

Hike

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Traditions and memories

by Emily Enger On a bleak December day 70 years ago, my grandfather jumped from a ruined B-17, a cold Minnesota farm boy tumbling from the sky into occupied Greece. That image is hard for me

to picture because I remember him stooped, impossibly old to my little eye, and far too gentle to be a radio gunner in a fighter plane.

This year I spent Memorial Day in the garden. It wasn’t the traditional

cemetery visit or parade, but I found it quite fitting. The man who taught me how to garden was the same man wounded that December day, the same man who spent a year and a half writing hopeful lies to his mother from a Nazi prison camp and the same man whose government forgot to decorate him until shortly before his death.

The quiet man who never spoke about any of it — the man I think of every Memorial Day. To many people, Memorial Day is an appropriate gardening day. It’s a long weekend and marks the beginning of consistent warmth. My grandpa never had the patience to wait until May to do the planting, though. He mail ordered his seeds mid-winter. Come spring, he started them in cut up milk cartons on his window sill. His dirtstreaked laundry room was as much a part of spring as the melting snow.

Of course, when you plant early, you typically harvest early, as well.

Grandpa’s garden always seemed like the first in our area to produce, with

yields enough to end world hunger!

Some days, I’d get to be his helper, riding along in the passenger seat of his little pickup truck to deliver vegetables to his neighbors... and his neighbor’s neighbors, and their out-of-state friends unlucky enough to be visiting when we arrived. Nobody could refuse my grandpa. The tassled corn in these people’s own gardens was turning the tell-tale shade of brown even as they accepted my grandpa’s corn. But if a quiet old man and his little blonde granddaughter showed up on your doorstep with five gallon pails of homegrown produce... would you really be able to say ‘no thank you?’

This year, my husband and I busted up new soil for our first garden. He worked harder than I did. I stripped off my gloves to kneel in the soil and let a wor m slink across my palm while he used a spade to turn over the sod.

In my excitement and lack of sensitivity, I continually pushed for him to do more, to expand the garden’s size.

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The year, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of the Corvette Stingray. In August, sixty-three first year Stingrays have been chosen to be assembled under the same tent in Carlisle, PA. Mine will be one of them, not because its condition is so pristine but because of the following story: The police treated the theft of my ‘63 roadster routinely, but I wasn’t insured.

For days I checked out Brooklyn’s dumping grounds for stolen cars. I put reward ads in newspapers.

A bus driver spotted a matching Corvette and took the plate number. The police computer showed the car was registered to a man I’ll call Higby who lived near the garage where the car had been spotted. I’d park nearby and walk past wearing different shirts and hats. I wanted to crash the door to rescue my car but I doubted if I’d get out alive.

Finally, I flagged down a police cruiser and told officer Joe McCormack my story.

He found that prior to the recent resurrection, the Higby car hadn’t been registered for seven years. Its vehicle identification number was probably taken from a wreck

and installed on my Corvette.

Later, I got a call from a car dealer in New Jersey saying that a man had brought in a Corvette that fit the description in my reward. The guy was supposed to return to complete the sale and the dealer asked me for details to I.D. the car.

I gave him several, including the new V.I.N. He said he’d get back to me. “Wait,” I said. “What’s your name?”

“Sam Ashkin,” he said.

I checked and there was no listing for

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Try a little kindness

by Donna Lee, 4-H and Master Gardener Program Coordinator I recently attended a workshop session at a conference that addressed Generational Differences in the workplace. One of the interesting things that came out of that discussion was that we appeared to be losing many common courtesies in our society with each new generation. Or, in “old school” language – manners. If this thinking is correct, as indicated by a number of different polls and surveys, then why even bother being polite anymore? What’s the big deal? We just need to change with the times, right?

Fortunately, not everyone feels this way. Every day we are given opportunities to model manners and good deeds. The question is, do you take advantage of those opportunities? It may take some practice, as we don’t see these behaviors demonstrated as frequently anymore, but it can be done. Remember the familiar example of a young person helping an elderly person across the street while carrying their groceries? Or what about something as simple as letting someone go ahead of you in line at a store? Have you ever pulled up to a toll booth and had the attendant wave you through because the car in front of you paid your toll? I have, and it’s an amazing feeling.

Just last week, my friend posted on Facebook about getting a free breakfast because someone had gone through the drive thru, handed the cashier a $50 bill and said to use it for the 2 police officers sitting in the restaurant. The officers were grateful but could not accept the gift, so they told the restaurant to buy gift cards and use them on people coming through the drive thru that morning. What a pleasant surprise for my friend. It set a wonderful tone for her entire day.

In my role as the Grafton County (New Hampshire)

Program Coordinator for 4-H and Master Gardeners, I have the chance to not only demonstrate everyday manners, but to see them modeled in front of me.

There are so many wonderful examples of kind, considerate volunteers in my line of work. They consistently encourage other adults and youth by their words and actions, taking the time to stop and say things like “thank you”, or “great job”. In researching the topic for this article, I came across a title of a book that made me burst out into laughter, it’s entitled “How Rude!: The Teenagers’ Guide to Good Manners, Proper Behavior, and Not Grossing People Out”, by Alex J. Packe. I have to say that it caught my attention, so I read further. He starts by explaining why etiquette is important, “because people who know how to handle themselves in social situations come out on top, get what they want, feel good about themselves, and enjoy life to the fullest…”.

According to Iowa State University family life specialists Donna Donald and Lori Hayungs, “teach children manners and they’re more likely to grow up to be respectful and develop empathy for others”.

Empathy has been described as having the ability to walk in another’s shoes. You are able to treat another kindly, based on understanding their feelings.

This should be our goal in helping our youth grow into responsible young men and women. “Raise the bar and you’ll find children will rise to it; lower it and they’ll achieve that standard, too” (Anita M. Smith, Vice President, The Institute for Youth Development).

So, as you move through your day today, I hope that you will continue to take on the responsibility of modeling manners to others. Instead of pointing the finger of blame to “changing times”, let’s remember the words of a familiar poem, “Children Live What They Learn” by Dorothy Law Nolte.

Every day we are given opportunities to model manners and good deeds. The question is, do you take advantage of those opportunities? “… if children live with kindness and consideration, they learn respect… if children live with friendliness, they learn the world is a nice place in which to live”.

Traditions from 1 In comparison to my memories, it never looked quite big enough.

“You have to get over this idea that we’re farming!” was his exasperated — and exhausted — rebuttal.

The dirt and chirping robins brought back details of former gardening days — most of which had nothing to do with actual gardening.

My grandpa’s garden was 20 miles from where he lived, therefore certain amenities were needed. Namely the outhouse. I spent the warm days dreading future uses of that moist cavern of bad smells. He only occasionally remembered to fill the thing with toilet paper. Honestly, that was okay. After a while the roll would start to smell like the outhouse... plus many weeks in what is essentially a closed sewer with no ventilation left it wet and cold, prone to tearing. It was better to not use it.

There were better memories, though.

Specifically from harvest time. As my grandpa drove his personal delivery route all across the county, I strained to see over the dash from my position in the passenger seat. (This was before children had to be in booster seats in the back. Or at least before we followed those laws.) To entertain me, my grandfather would joke around on the barren rural roads. He’d swerve into the wrong lane, stop the truck, or lay on the horn... all attempts to avoid crashing into the rhinoceros or giraffe he insisted was in the middle of the road. I assume he wanted me to look around, wide-eyed for the zoo animal I’d missed.

Instead, my precocious voice accused, “There’s nothing there. You’re lying!”

Then he’d just smile.

Whether on the road or pulling weeds, gardening always ended the

Me and my new gardening partner — a good man and hard worker who I wish my grandpa could have met.

Photos courtesy of Emily Enger

same way: a glass of homemade ice tea. Grandpa liked his tea sweet enough to be hummingbird food. My sweet tooth is not quite so evolved, though you wouldn’t have convinced my child-self of that fact. I can still hear the tink of grandpa’s spoon against his polymer glass, which smelt like melting plastic, and see the hurricane inside my own glass as I, too, valiantly tried to dissolve sugar in the cold beverage — nearly a scientific impossibility.

Last weekend, while watching my husband work, and sipping my own blend of that iced tea, I did the math. My grandfather was a POW when he was exactly the age I am now.

I spent my day off as a 23-yearold happily puttering in her first garden alongside her husband of two years, in still-basically-newlywed bliss.

A slight breeze cooled the sun on our backs. We had a picnic of hot dogs and baked beans cooked on a Coleman stove. It was perfect.

I have these days in my youth, because when my grandfather was 23, his days were spent looking forward to the next pack of cigarettes rationed out

by German officers.

It’s been many years since I’ve stood upon that sacred soil my grandpa used to garden in. Grandpa died 10 years ago — hard to believe I’ve had a decade without him already — and his last few years left him too frail to garden. The land was sold to the neighboring farmer, who I presume added it to his field. That’s okay; I’m glad it’s still producing. I never think about it as the corner of some guy’s field, though. In my mind, it resembles the classic chil-

Old enough to know better, but still stubborn enough to wear white socks and sandals out to the garden! dren’s story “The Secret Garden.” It’s a little oasis overgrown with vines, herbs and wild flowers. Weeds, too — but only the pretty varieties. A place where orphans discover adventure and crippled children walk.

My sentimentality is mostly fueled by imaginative questions about grandpa that were never answered. Why did he spend so much time in obsession over what should have been a hobby? Did the stillness and chirping of nature give him needed thinking time? Was it how he coped with the extreme advancements of society? Did he miss the farming lifestyle he was raised in?

Was it the only place he could handle the fading echoes of harsh Germanic yells?

Or maybe I look too deep, trying to connect dots and add backstory where none exist. Maybe my grandfather gardened for the same reason most people do: maybe he just enjoyed it.

by Jeff Pieters ROCHESTER, MN — When John Freivalds’ wife, Margo, died suddenly three years ago at age 65, it wasn’t the end of the couple’s relationship, but the start of a new chapter in it.

Eying the steamer trunk that held Margo’s many diaries, Freivalds, of Minneapolis, finally became motivated to open the lid.

“I never once thought of diving into them,” he said. “Not that I was prohibited to, but we were too busy living our lives. So when she died, I went in there.”

In so doing, he lifted the veil on the first four decades of his wife’s life, seeing with more clarity and greater detail her past as an adventurer whose worldwide travels _ solo _ inspired in Freivalds a sense of awe, and gave him much of the material he would need to write his selfpublished book, “`Til the River Runs Dry,” a memoir of Margo’s life.

“This was a risk-taker in a time before tourism, really,” he told the PostBulletin (http://bit.ly/13x46l9).

“Now you go on these everythingpackaged tours, but imagine a 6-foot woman doing Asia with a backpack by herself for a year. But that was what got her the job when she came back. She got an executive job because people thought she was a risk-taker. . I tell people now, just drop out and take a sabbatical while your knees work. She realized that before others.”

By the time Freivalds met her, Margo was an executive for Bristol Myers Squibb, representing the Mayo Clinic account. The couple generated memories aplenty, in years living in the Midwest and Virginia, in their own global travels, and in months spent at Mayo Clinic, where Margo received treatment for various bone problems until pleomorphic sarcoma, a deadly cancer,

killed her - just 12 days after it was diagnosed.

Finding new stories to tell about his wife became sweet therapy, Freivalds said: “It gave me something to do to get out of the grief.”

Margo herself was never overly impressed with her own adventures of the year 1987, during which she passed through settings including the Himalayas, rural India and the Great Barrier Reef.

“She didn’t think it was any big deal,” Freivalds said. But “I wanted her courage to be known. I wanted to bring all of that out. That’s why the book was done, and I’m glad I did it.”

Freivalds has written four other books, including “The Famine Plot,” which received a New York Times review, and he has been commissioned to write a memoir of a prominent meat-industry entrepreneur. But it’s not likely, he sug-

Staking tomatoes brings benefits, responsibilities

by Lee Reich A month from now, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Tomato seedlings that were planted neatly near garden stakes are already beginning to take matters into their own hands, and if allowed to grow willy nilly will turn into a tangled mass of vines with tomato fruits _ many of them rotting _ hidden in a dark jungle of stems. So, if you were planning to stake and prune your tomato plants, start asserting yourself now.

Tomatoes do not have to be staked and pruned to be grown well, but if you planted them anything less than 3 or 4 feet apart and put stakes beside each one, that obviously was your intention.

What’s at stake?

Staking is admittedly the more troublesome way to grow tomatoes. But in return for your troubles, you reap earlier fruits, larger fruits, cleaner fruits and more fruits per square foot of garden space. (Only socalled indeterminate tomatoes — those whose stems are forever elongating, as indicated on the seed packet — can be staked.)

To keep the plants neat through the season, the stake has to be sturdy, no smaller than an inch-anda-half-square piece of wood, bamboo or metal pipe. To accommodate that ever-elongating growth, a stake also must be about seven feet tall, enough for one end to be plunged solidly into the ground while the other extends as high as you can reach for pruning, tying and harvesting.

Ongoing pruning OK, your stakes are in the ground. Your tomatoes are growing well and you’ve been pruning them by snapping off shoots, called suckers, that appear wherever a leaf meets the single stem. So what more do you need to worry about?

Those tomato plants are going to need more attention than you think. Turn your back on them for what seems like a few minutes, and already little new suckers are picking up steam. Or, the plant has grown another 12 inches and is starting to flop over.

Time for another tier of soft twine or a strip of cloth looped tightly around the stake, then loosely around the stem to hold it up.

Sometimes plants get away Most frustrating is when you’re startled by a giant sucker, almost as robust as the single main stem, on a plant that otherwise has been so neatly trained. This common situation results, ironically, from paying too close attention to the plants. While you were staring at small details like little suckers trying to get toeholds, a large one that went unnoticed kept growing

larger. It doesn’t take long for a large sucker to take on the proportions of the main stem.

There are a few ways to handle such a delinquent shoot. The first is to lop it off at its origin. The plant doesn’t like losing all this photosynthesizing greenery, and small tomatoes might even be forming on it. Still, lopping the overgrown sucker off keeps the plant neat and uncongested, which are long-term benefits that make this option best earlier in the season.

The second option is to let the shoot grow, tie it up, and now consider your staked plant as having two main stems instead of one. Diligent pruning from here on can usually prevent congestion, although two stems provide twice the opportunity for delinquent suckers to sneak up on you.

The third option is just to ignore the delinquent shoot, except to harvest its tomato fruits when the time comes. This is the best course of action near the end of the season, when it becomes well-nigh impossible to keep up with suckers anyway. Tomato plants sometimes acquire odd growth habits, and toward the end of the season, new shoots even sometimes start growing from the ends of leaves.

gests, that he’ll have another book to top this one.

“What I wrote for Margo is a memorial,” he said. “She’s always going to be alive. Somebody will be paging through her book.”

John Freivalds, left, is the author of "'Til the River Runs Dry," a memoir of the life of his late wife, Margo Mogush Freivalds, right.

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Looking Back

by Elizabeth Lipiec Zerbst

Looking back at years gone by, so many memories come to me.

The world was young and so was I, and life was full and worry free.

Our family farm was our way of life, and my family was my pride.

Parents and youngsters, brothers and sisters, working side by side.

Working hard on family land many miles away from town...

The air was clean, the view was grand, with nature’s beauty all around.

I’d walk about a quarter mile to reach my favorite spot, to watch the sunset fill the sky, while I sat perched upon a rock.

Getting up before the sun, with cows to milk and calves to feed.

We shared our work to get it done, with love and trust, not hate or greed.

Picking berries in the woods or gathering flowers on the hill or catching bullheads from the pond, are among my favorite memories still.

My family was not a small one, I had siblings all around... and after all was said and done, they were my best friends to be found.

The years have passed and we have grown and gone our separate ways, with kids and grandkids of our own, but I won’t forget those days.

Those happy childhood days we shared, as we worked and played and grew.

And I’m thankful for the country life and the values to carry us through.

Looking back at years gone by, so many memories come to me.

The world was young and so was I, and I thought back then, I would always be.

Elizabeth, known to her friends and family as Betty, grew up on a dairy farm in the town of Danube. She and her husband Fred now live on their 49 acre hobby farm in the town of Stratford. Betty has been writing poetry since junior high school, and presently has several self-published books. Visit her website at www.elizabethzerbst.com.

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Takee a hike landscapes and destinations. I never thought I would be able to enjoy anyby Molly Woodworth thing more than that. However after my My Name is Molly Woodworth. I study summer had come to a close and all the Floral Design and Landscape Planning kids had gone home, I still had some and Design at Morrisville State college time left at camp to myself. So I laced and I live in Fenner, NY. I’ve loved the up my walking shoes, strapped on my outdoors all my life! camera, clipped on my Nalgene waterThe summer of 2012 was my first bottle, and went out for my own hike. summer as a full time employee at my Walking along the dirt road, it almost dream job. I work at a summer camp seemed like I had completely forgotten called Oswegatchie, in Croghan, NY. I something as it was so uncharacteristilead hikes all summer long all over cally quiet. But I chugged along enjoycamp property telling kids about every- ing the humid late summer air. At the thing I know regarding the surrounding base of the trail I signed in, leaving a lonely number one for the group count. It seemed all wrong, not having responsibility for anyone.

As I went along the trail, hopping over the puddles and pushing off rocks, I listened to the sounds of the woods around me.

It’s absolutely amazing how you can walk a trail a hundred times but when you take your time you can notice the little treasures that you otherwise would never notice before. I felt Some amphibious wildlife along the trail. the cool fall breezes blowing in, pushing summer away, and I could hear the wildlife all around The me. After all the times I hiked to that spot, I had never been able Justt goodd reading to find my way to a secondary Published weekly on Wednesday by Lee Publications trail that leads farther out to a 6113 St. Hwy. 5, Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 pond called Jake’s Pond. Until Publisher, President this time. I found it and followed Frederick W. Lee V.P., General Manager it, pushing my way through the

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for Sam Ashkin. He probably had my Corvette and was pumping me for information. Now, Ashkin would change the V.I.N. again or maybe cut up the car.

Months later the police computer showed that the car was now registered to a man I’ll call Livingston who owned a store in the Bronx. I drove there hoping to spot my car. Impatient, I entered the store and began to ask about the Corvette. In seconds, six junkyard dog characters surrounded me. There was some finger poking and chest butting and spittle landed on my face. Livingston said that his wasn’t my car.

“Just let me see it?” I insisted.

“I don’t have to show you nothin’,” he said.

Later, Officer McCormack told me he would force Livingston to produce the Corvette by blocking registra-

tion. But there was still a chance that it wasn’t my car.

Three weeks later, armed with my list of unique features, McCormack called to say the Corvette was mine.

Over the phone I heard Livingston ranting about the money he’d invested. I recognized his voice. He was Sam Ashkin, the car dealer. After calling me, he knew for sure the Corvette he had bought from Higby was stolen.

Finally, a full year after my roadster had been taken, I left the police pound and steered it onto the parkway. I could hear the crisp sound of the mufflers. The smell of the 60s interior filled my head. There was damage to undo and numbers to erase — but we were headed home.

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Hello Again, Con artists sure come in all shapes and sizes. I was watching television a few minutes ago and a big name store had this commercial running.

“The more you buy the more you’ll save.” Before I was a teenager I figured out the only way I could save was to not buy.

What would I have left to save after I spent it?

Standing near George Washington’s home in

Virginia during the spring of 1953. A girl classmate said, “George Washington, standing near his house, threw a silver dollar across the Potomac River. The river at that point must be nearly a half-mile wide. Isn’t that some sort of proof that money went further in those days?”

Chatting about money it seems reasonable that we should give our president credit for handling money. He is certainly better at it than presidential candidate Mr. Romney. During Mr. Obama’s years in Washington he

has already helped spend several trillion dollars.

While Mr. Romney was only able to make a few hundred millions of dollars, and keep it.

Just think if Mr. Romney bought into that philosophy and spent all of his millions. By now he could go over-seas and buy China, Japan or Taiwan. If he owned China we – his fellow Americans – would owe him several trillions instead of becoming president he could own this country.

Do you think that our

president has bought into the local department store’s philosophy “The more you spend – The more you’ll save”?

It would appear that we are very quickly spending ourselves into a room at the poor house.

On the other hand if our Washington leaders could buy China and Japan and connect both of them to the North American continent, think of all the money we could save. Then we Americans would be able to claim to be the world master at money making

Automotive by spending more than we have so we could save even more. It would appear to some that Mrs. Pelosi must have composed that line just before her famous announcement, “We are going to pass Mr. Obama’s health bill. Then we will figure out what it says.”

Long before baseball Cooperstown, NY was a birthplace of fame. James Fenimore Cooper, considered one of America’s first romantic novelist, lived most of his lifetime in Cooperstown, which was established by his father William Cooper.

Contrary to those who would have our so called ‘modern society’ believe that early America was not a Christian believing nation, Judge William Cooper and his famous son were both Christians.

James Fenimore was a lifetime member of the Episcopal Church in Cooperstown. And, during his later years he was a generous supporter and contributor. His world famous historical novels known as The Leatherstocking Tales were considered family treasures and read worldwide.

When Cooper was 13 years old he enrolled at Yale and was expelled in his junior year for blowing up a fellow student’s door. I have often wondered if James Fenimore Cooper had stayed at Yale and graduated what would the remainder of his life have been?

Lawyer, doctor, or just a

landowner. With expulsion from Yale, he entered the Navy and eventually turned to writing fictional historical novels and became world famous. I’m sure you will find some of his novels in your local library.

Cooperstown’s claim to fame hangs not only on the name of James Fenimore Cooper and his Leatherstocking Tales but must be shared with Abner Doubleday and the history of the great American sport – baseball.

While accepted by most as a Cooperstown native and inventor of baseball, Abner Doubleday lived as a youth in Auburn, NY and moved to Cooperstown to live with an uncle and attend a private preparatory high school.

In 1838, he entered the United States Military Academy and eventually became a two star major general.

Let’s toss in a bit of humor. During the 1950’s, I worked as a high school student at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and museum. During those years, Ernest John Lanigan, the author of the first encyclopedia of baseball, was the museum-library historian.

One day I asked, “Mr. Lanigan, was Cooperstown the real birthplace of baseball?” He answered, “Why not? It is just as good here as anywhere else.”

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Shortly after Paddy arrived from Ireland, he was arrested and brought before the judge. The judge with a surprised look asked, “Are you the defendant?” “No,” said Paddy. “I hired a lawyer to do my defending. I’m the one who stole the chickens.”

While I enjoy chatting with you, I am looking out of the front window and I see the little red Spyder beckoning to me.

You guessed it right; the Spyder is winning – so until next Hello Again, God be with you.

such a tiny population grew into the great United States, a leader in the world, why has it become so popular to treat God – our Heavenly Father – as if he doesn’t exist and/or that his words in the Bible are not worth the time to study?

I pray that he will not reach a decision to treat our country and people in the same way.

Remember tomorrow will be the first day of the rest of your life. Make it count. Be happy and treat your neighbor as your closest friend. If you’re looking for something to do Sunday, try visiting a Bible-believing church.

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by Slim Randles “From the cow to the plow, Dewey,” Windy said, leaning on a shovel.

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“What do you mean, Windy?”

“You know … a slogan for the business. From the cow to the plow. Fertilizer. Farming.”

He was helping Dewey spread some product around at Mrs. Simmon’s yard, helping her anticipate a greener lawn this summer. Besides enriching the English language at every possible moment, Alphonse “Windy” Wilson devotes

one day each week to helping someone, for free, here in the valley.

He usually calls it his “enrichelating experience.”

Windy went back to Dewey’s pickup for the steel rake. “What you’re doing here,” Windy tossed back over his shoulder, “is plowing backly into our community the veriatable seedlets of hope and change for the future.

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Dewey’s being monumentally self-destructive around anything valuable, movable or sharp was certainly no secret.

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by Marilynn Marchione, AP Chief Medical Writer Women have another reason to exercise: It may help prevent kidney stones. You don’t have to break a sweat or be a super athlete, either. Even walking for a couple hours a week can cut the risk of developing this painful and common problem by about onethird, a large study found.

“Every little bit makes a difference” and the intensity doesn’t matter — just getting a minimum amount of exercise does, said Dr. Mathew Sorensen of the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle.

He led the study, which was to be discussed Friday at an American Urological Association conference in San Diego.

About 9 percent of people will get a kidney stone sometime in their life. The problem is a little more common in men, but incidence has risen 70 percent over the

last 15 years, most rapidly among women.

Obesity raises the risk as do calcium supplements, which many women take after menopause. A government task force recently advised against supplements for healthy older women, saying that relatively low-dose calcium pills don’t do much to keep bones strong but make kidney stones more likely.

The new research involved nearly 85,000 women 50 and older in the government-funded Women’s Health Initiative study. All had an exam to measure weight and height so doctors could figure out their body mass index, a gauge of obesity. They also filled out annual surveys on what they ate, so researchers could take into account things known to lower the risk of kidney stones, such as drinking a lot of fluids and eating less salt or meat.

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After about eight years, 3 percent of the women had developed a kidney stone. Compared to women who got no leisure-time exercise, those who got up to five METs per week had a 16 percent lower risk for stones. The risk was 22 percent lower with five to 10 METs per week and 31 percent lower for 10 METs or more. Exercise beyond 10 METs added no additional benefit for kidney stone prevention.

Exercise intensity didn’t matter — just how much women got each week.

“We’re not asking people to run marathons.

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Sasha is FWP’s porcupine ambassador

by Eve Byron, Independent Record HELENA, MT (AP) — Most people don’t consider porcupines to be cute and cuddly, but Sasha is out to change that.

She doesn’t have much to say when she gets up on her stump. But the watermelon-size rodent is absolutely charming, preening and posing for crowds like a model on a runway.

“She’s charismatic,” says Sam Lavin, a volunteer at Montana Wild, the Department of Fish, Wildlife and Park’s education and conservation center in Helena. “She’s a little diva and soaks up attention once she’s on the stump.”

FWP is a firm advocate of not interfering with or humanizing wild animals, and they’ve rehabbed and released other porcupines. But Sasha’s story is somewhat unique and she’s become an ambassador animal for FWP, along with the raptors and other birds housed at the center.

Lisa Rhodin, the FWP wildlife rehabilitation manager, said they were contacted by a long-distance trucker from White Sulphur Springs a few years ago who found Sasha when he was hauling hay. Her umbilical cord was still attached when she was discovered.

“We figure the mom gave birth and was run off when they started baling hay,” Rhodin said.

“He rescued her and his wife and kids tried their best to take care of her but they weren’t really good with her nutrition.

She was four months old when she came here and would literally fit in your lap. She was about the

with myths.

“We also realized how much personality she had,” Rhodin added. “We see this as a great opportunity for people to see a porcupine up close and personal, and understand how unique they

purpose by Sasha.

“Even though I’ve been working with her for two years, I still have to think about what I’m doing with her,” Lavin said.

“You can’t cuddle her and she’s still a wild animal, even though she’s

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size of a volleyball.”

Rhodin said they debated what to do with the porcupine, but eventually realized that she already was so habituated to humans that she wouldn’t survive in the wild.

“She wasn’t appropriately afraid of people,” Lavin added.

Making Sasha into an ambassador animal also was appealing since most people don’t know much about porcupines and they’re surrounded

are.”

Lavin laughs as she brushes the long hairs that cover the quills underneath on the porcupine’s back, noting that she can only move her hand in one direction when petting Sasha.

Both she and Rhodin have been “quilled” a few times, but usually not on

a little diva.”

As the two women are talking, Sasha is constantly moving. She’s a vegetarian, and this morning she’s enjoying nuts, veggies and fruit.

Porcupines also eat pine needles and the tree’s cambium layer, which is the soft part under the bark.

Initially, Lavin hands Sasha chunks of yams and lettuce, which she dexterously grasps with her long claws before putting the food in her mouth. Eventually, she tires of Lavin’s pace and grabs the blue cup in her paws and sticks her face deep into it, seeking out the remnants of any former contents.

After finishing her meal, Sasha turns around on her stump and shows off her quillstudded tail, which is her most dangerous attribute. Rhodin and Lavin note how porcupines are slow to anger — a porcupine attribute long admired by Native Americans — and they’ll typically warn predators three times by sticking up their quills before defending themselves.

Then look out for that tail.

“The tail is really muscular and they can flick it so fast that a human can’t see it,” Lavin said.

“That’s where the quill throwing myth comes from.”

They recommend that the barbed quills be pulled out as soon as possible, because otherwise they sink deeper into the skin. Rhodin said the quills have a natural antibiotic on them, which prevents them from injuring other porcupines when they

mate, but also causes an itching sensation on human and dog skin.

“Pull the quills out as soon as possible with a pair of pliers,” Lavin said. “You can take a dog to a vet to be anesthetized if needed.”

Rhodin adds that the pet owner should have someone restrain the dog while going to the vet so the dog doesn’t try to get the quills out and inadvertently drive them deeper into the skin.

Porcupines are nocturnal, so most people won’t ever run into them. But evidence of their presence often can be found on gloves or ax handles, which they chew on in search of salt.

“That’s why ranchers don’t like them very much,” Rhodin said.

By this time Sasha is tiring of the attention, and tries to climb off her stump. Lavin says she’s going to let Sasha sleep for the day; at night she wanders around the rehabilitation center, climbing on her jungle gym and nibbling on a salt block. When she’s content, she hums.

“It’s a neat vocalization; when she’s happy she has a pretty song she sings to herself. It’s kind of a murmur,” Rhodin said. “It’s kind of charming.”

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by Terrence Petty, Associated Press Adah Bakalinsky says there are more than 650 public stairways in San Francisco. She knows because she’s climbed them all, except the newest ones. And at age 90, she still climbs them with friends.

Walks are always full of surprises,” said Bakalinsky, who has been walking San Francisco’s public stairways since arriving there in 1970.

Bakalinsky is impressive not just because she stays active at her age, but because of the energy she puts into finding

one for San Francisco.

Americans have gotten accustomed to navigating through urban areas by car, and the freeways running around and through our cities may give potential walkers pause.

But there are discoveries to be made on foot — call it urban hiking, ur-

“At the spur of the moment we might decide to walk, to check out something interesting about an area. It’s a way of being in touch with different parts of the city.

new nooks and crannies in San Francisco and encouraging others to do the same. She has written two books on walks using public stairways — one for Los Angeles and

ban walking or just going for a stroll. Paths and trails that have been created over the years, and are still being created, are being discovered as portals to urban epiphanies.

Even in car-jammed Los Angeles.

Author and adventurer Dan Koeppel has led thousands on walks over the past eight years — through historic LA, up to landmarks like the Hollywood Sign, and up and down public stairways.

Koeppel says these treks are akin to “urban forensics.” Included in some of his tours is a spot beneath a bridge where there’s graffiti written by hobos who rode the rails a century ago.

With urban walks, Koeppel says, “You get to know your neighbors, your city and what people are doing. There’s something incredibly satisfying about learning something about your neighborhood you didn’t know before.”

Each May, he leads a 40-mile(64-kilometer), two-day trek called the Big Parade, which starts downtown and ends at the Hollywood Sign.

Some people walk just a few miles (kilometers) of the Big Parade. Some do the whole walk. One of

the featured attractions is a little-known pedestrian pathway along the Pasadena Freeway. It’s “a combination of stairs, tunnels, ramps, spirals and walkways that makes you feel as if you’re literally standing in the middle of traffic,” he says. In fact, you are standing in the middle of traffic — but protected by a caged barrier.

“It is an absolutely intense experience,” Koeppel says.

Elsewhere, Atlanta is developing a 22-mile (35.4-kilometer) network of multi-use trails. The project is not complete, but walkers, runners and cyclists are already swarming a 2-mile (3.2kilometer) segment of recently finished paved trail.

Houston is developing trails and parks along its bayous.

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by Sam Mazzotta Hot car can kill Dear Paw’s Corner: I was taking my groceries out to the car when I noticed two small puppies looking out the window of a car parked next to mine. The windows were rolled all the way up, and the pups were panting nonstop. I ran back into

the store and asked the manager to page the dogs’ owner. Fortunately, the owner responded and went out to the car, saying he only meant to be inside for a few minutes.

Can you let your readers know that leaving pets in a hot car, even “only for a few minutes,” could be a death sentence for them?

Thanks. — Charlotte in Reno, NV. Dear Charlotte: You told them, and I thank you! The temperature inside a parked car, even with the windows cracked to allow airflow, can rise dramatically within just 10 minutes on a moderately cool day.

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outside, a car’s interior can heat up to 99 degrees in 10 minutes, and to 109 degrees in 20 minutes, according to a report by RedRover, a nonprofit animal protection organization.

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If that isn’t enough to convince you, consider this: In some states, owners who leave their pets

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So take heed. If you must go somewhere that you can’t bring your dog — like a grocery store, a tourist attraction or elsewhere — leave your pet at home. (c) 2013 King Features Synd., Inc.

Atlanta Beltline, is being developed along an old rail corridor.

“It slices through the city in a way you can’t do by car,” said Ryan Gravel, an urban planner who came up with the idea for the Beltline in 1999 while working on his master’s degree.

The 2-mile (3.2-kilometer)segment completed last year, paved and 14-feet (4.3-meters) wide, is “mobbed with people walking, jogging and biking,” he said.

The Atlanta project is similar to one in New York City called the High

Line, an elevated park being developed atop a former railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan.

In some cities, onceforgotten public stairways are becoming an integral part of an urban walk. Many were built decades ago, sometimes connecting hilly neighborhoods with trolley lines or with other neighborhoods.

Seattle residents Jake and Cathy Jaramillo wrote a book about the estimated 650 public stairways in their hilly city, and lead tours that focus on them. Their

walks range from half a mile (kilometer) to 5 miles (8 kilometers).

Folks on the tours have discovered obscure public gardens, and spectacular views of Seattle,

Lake Washington and distant mountains.

Walkers also are rewarded with fresh perspectives on the city’s history and architecture.

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the way. They tell you stories and what they know. There is a social element as you get immersed in the neighborhoods,” said Jake Jaramillo.

Urban from 9 tram, and take a trolley to downtown.

On urban walks, you’re apt to see a greater range of people than you would on a trek in the wilderness. Frequenters of Portland’s West Hills include hipsters with tight jeans and sneakers, athletes running in high-tech shoes, and gents and ladies wearing clothes you might expect to see at a performance of the Oregon Symphony.

A similar mix can be found on the trails under development in Atlanta.

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Having never known Rhubarb to stand alone as a main dish, but blended with just a few in season ingredients it can be quite a delight.

Rhubarb is a cool season crop that prefers not to be harvested the first

year of transplant. In it’s second year you can harvest just the biggest stalks and by year three, cut away at any stalk that has good color.

Appearing quite happy in a mulched flower bed, Rhubarb prefers the sun beating down on it all day with it’s roots tucked

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Wash the stems completely and cut the leaves off for the compost pile. The Rhubarb stalk is then sliced into thin pieces.

This chutney can be a little different every time depending on what you have the most of. The flexibility with this recipe creates many different flavors and is sure not to disappoint.

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8 oz Jar Orange marmalade 2 peeled apples chopped and cored 2 stalks celery — washed and sliced Enough water or apple juice to cover the bottom of the pot about 1/4 inch high Optional added ingredients: Raisins, pears, peaches or strawberries Add all the above ingredients into a large stock pot. Simmer over medium heat, stirring often, until all the ingredients are soft.

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Memorial Day parade

by Al Dorantes Just before the last Monday in May, American flags seem to multiply and appear everywhere. In television commercials for sofa sales and in used car ads in the newspaper. Cookout

supplies and beer cans all sport American flags promoting the unofficial official start of summer.

Sometimes in all the glitz of advertising we forget exactly why we are celebrating. While some of us are stocking up on

hotdogs and hamburgers, the VFW, American Legion, and other groups are placing small flags on the graves and monuments of fallen soldiers.

Memorial Day started after the Civil War. It was initially called Decoration Day and was supposed to be a day to remember the Union and Confederate soldiers who died in the war. As time passed, Decoration Day gradually became known as Memorial Day. In

1967 Federal Law officially changed the name of the holiday to Memorial Day. In 1971 Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act. This piece of legislature moved the dates of four holidays from their original dates to specific Mondays (Washington’s birthday moved from 2/22 to the third Monday in February, Memorial Day moved from May 30 to the last Monday in

May, Columbus Day from Oct. 12 to the second Monday in October, Veterans Day from Nov. 11 to the fourth Monday in October but returned to Nov. 11 in 1978). The law was enacted to increase the number of three day weekends for federal employees.

The VFW (and other groups) would prefer if Memorial Day was observed on its original date. In a 2002 Memorial Day Address the VFW

said, “Changing the date to merely create threeday weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed a lot to the general public’s nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.” In small towns and big cities across the United States, the flags were placed on the graves and monuments long before Monday. On Memorial

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Jack O’Connell, WWII veteran, enjoys Herkimer’s Memorial Day parade.

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Memorial from 12 cars, fire trucks and maybe even an Army Jeep. They’ll march down main streets and wave to the throngs of people.

The flag leads the Memorial Day parade in Herkimer, NY. Photos by Al Dorantes

In the days after Memorial Day, continue to take a moment and decorate your mental memorial to our fallen soldiers.

Without their dedication, honor, and sacrifice, America would surely be a different place.

Candy and lollipops will be given to children.

In Herkimer, NY, the parade starts in the parking lot of the County Office Building. It wanders south down North Washington Street and eventually concludes in Meyers Park. The marching band will play as the veterans, marchers, and spectators

file into the park.

It’s in the park that the real tribute happens.

The band quiets and their songs become more somber. The fire truck’s sirens will stop and kids will hush. One of the parade organizers will tap on the microphone and will introduce the MC. The MC will say some

kind words and will then introduce the guest speaker. The speaker will expound on the virtues of service and sacrifice.

They’ll talk about honor and pride and values that built and shaped America. Veterans will stand and salute. At the end, taps will play and the somber notes will

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How to safely light and extinguish a campfire A roaring campfire is often a staple of the camping experience. A campfire to cook food or keep warm is an asset at any campground, and in the evening hours, a fire can provide a sense of security against inquisitive forest animals. A burning fire can also illuminate a campsite, which makes maneuvering around the site easier.

Although there are many benefits to having a campfire, it’s important to note that fires, especially in very dry conditions, can be dangerous.

It is essential to check a particular campsite or park’s posting about drought conditions to avoid an accident. In the wrong conditions, a cozy fire for toasting marshmallows can grow into an out-of-control wildfire in a matter of seconds.

Starting a fire When you are ready to start a fire it is important to keep safety in mind.

• Pick a safe spot to light the fire. Many campfires have fire rings for campers to use. If you are selecting a fire location on your own, choose an area away from brush or other easily ignitable material. Make a ring with large rocks to keep the fire from spreading. Keep the fire several feet away from your tent.

• Gather materials during the day so you will not be scrambling for them after dark. You will need both tinder and kindling to light a fire and keep it roaring. Tinder is any small, highly flammable material that can

light and burn quickly.

Fibrous plant material, small twigs and newspaper make good tinder.

Kindling is small pieces of wood that will burn long enough to catch larger logs of wood on fire. Finally, you will need a few logs of thicker wood that will sustain the fire. Have plenty of material on hand to be able to continue the fire, or you may find yourself foraging in the darkness when the fire goes out.

• Create a teepee or X pattern for a well-burning fire. Layer your tinder as the first level of the fire.

Stack a few pieces of kindling on top of the tinder in an X or teepee shape.

Ensure there is enough air to move freely through the fire to make ignition easier. Light the tinder from four compass points to get it all to light. Slowly blow air into the fire to allow it to burn hot enough to catch the kindling. Continue to add small pieces of kindling until you have a nicely sized fire. Then you can add larger pieces of dry wood for a big blaze.

• Do not use accelerants when starting a fire or keeping it going. Avoid the use of chemicals, including lighter fluid and other accelerants in your campfire. Do not use chemically treated paper or plastic materials in kindling, as they can produce noxious fumes and smoke. Accelerants can cause the fire to burn out of control. Keep the fire contained to what you can manage, and always keep a watchful eye on

the fire.

Maintaining the fire You may need to fiddle with the fire from time to time to vent it and allow for equal burning. Having an ample amount of wood on hand will enable you to feed the fire easily. It’s much easier to keep a fire going than start from scratch once it has burned out, especially in the dark.

Be mindful of embers that drift in windy conditions. Also, do not put your face or body directly over a fire. If the wood pops, you could be burned. Children should be carefully supervised when around a campfire.

Extinguishing the fire After building your campfire, completely put it out when you are done.

Thousands of acres of wilderness are burnt from carelessness with regard to campfires.

• Put out the fire a half hour to an hour before you plan to leave the campground.

There should be mostly ash and few chunks of coal left if you have planned accordingly and started to wind down the fire before extinguishing it.

• Use a stick to stir up the wood and ash and distribute the burning coals and embers. This is to extinguish any remaining flames as much as you can.

• Pour water over the hot ashes to drown all embers. It’s not just the red embers you have to worry about. Pour water until all the hissing sounds stop.

Avoid standing directly above

the fire when you pour the water because it will generate a lot of steam and smoke. If you do not

further ensure the fire is not still burning.

• Make sure everything is wet and cold to the

everything is cool, you can scoop the coals and ash into a bag and carry it out of the woods for

have water on hand, mix dirt or sand with the embers to smother the flames. Continue to do so until the material is cool.

• Stir the ashes again with a shovel or stick to

touch before you leave the campsite. If the fire area is too hot to the touch, it’s too hot to leave it because a fire may reignite.

• Once you feel that

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Knowing how to safely light, maintain and extinguish a fire is an essential component of safe camping.

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Obstacle course racing growing in popularity

by John marshall, The Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Obstacle course runners start on their feet, but eventually end up on their stomachs, sides, even backs at they clamber through mud, over shipping containers, across netting made of mangled ropes.

The most mentally strong will choose courses where they have to jump off large platforms into water, run across fire, even crawl through water as live wires zap them from above.

Sound like fun?

Okay, burning and shocking may not be for

everyone, but not all obstacle course races are that intense.

Most are filled with obstacles that are challenging but not painful, providing a good test of strength, stamina and mental toughness in a way that’s fun and as demanding as the competitors want it to be.

And for those who make it across the finish line, the can’t-believe-Ijust-did-that reward is usually worth all the agony.

“It challenges your cardio, it challenges you muscularly and challenges you mentally,” said Michael Sandercock, founder of obsta-

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Obstacle course races have been around pretty much since the dawn of civilized society; the ancient Greeks had a race called the Stadion, where runners ran naked around a track covered with obstacles.

The Stadion was once part of the five events in the Olympic Pentathlon, and obstacle course races — with clothes — continued through the centuries. The races also became staples of

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The current trend in obstacle racing started a few years ago, when elite athletes started looking for new challenges, ones without the joint-jarring pain of long-distance running or the cost of triathlons.

The Spartan Race, created in 2005 by seven ultra athletes and a Royal Marine, was one of the first major obstacle course races, and The Warrior Dash and Tough Mudder races weren’t far behind.

Now there are over 50 races and series across the United States, from the difficult, fire-andelectricity types to entertainment-slanted ones like the Run for Your Lives 5K, where participants are chased by zombies.

“It’s really taken off in the past three years or so,” said James Villepigue, co-owner of one event called The

Survival Race, and author of the “Obstacle Race Training Bible” (Alpha, 2012). “I think we’re hitting critical mass now with races popping up everywhere.”

Obstacle course races are all based on the same basic principles — testing competitors’ limits in unique ways — but there is a wide variety of distances and types of obstacles.

Many, like The Survival Race and Warrior Dash, are more familyoriented, with shorter distances and obstacles that aren’t too punishing, such as climbing walls and cargo nets, going through mud pits, scrambling up and over shipping containers — sometimes with a net in between — and running through tires like prospective professional football players do at the NFL combine.

The races often have live bands playing throughout the day, food and equipment vendors, sometimes even beer to enjoy with fellow competitors after the race.

The difficult obstacle course races are run over longer distances and have more challenging obstacles, such as climbing ropes, carrying heavy objects like tires and sandbags, and crawling under barbed wire.

The Tough Mudder races, arguably the most difficult in the genre, feature up to 25 obstacles along courses that cover 10 or more miles, including a plunge into a dumpster filled with ice water and a sprint through fire. The series, which has over 50 events in several countries, also has the shocking obstacles: live wires carrying up to 10,000 volts of electricity hanging in a tunnel that runners have to go through, and a crawl through frigid water with more live wires hanging above.

But even some of the toughest races have a range of distances and challenges.

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dozen races in Canada and the United States this year, includes four distances, from 3 to 26 miles, and many other races include shorter versions and kid runs.

Of course, there are always those athletes who want the ultimate challenge, so for them there’s the Spartan Death Race, which last 48 hours, and the World’s Toughest Mudder, an invitation-only race that lasts 24 hours.

“Depending on your athletic ability, you can choose these races and pretty much find something that will suit where you’re at at the moment,” said Sandercock, a mechanical engineer from Milwaukee who created his website to help fellow obstacle course racers keep track of upcoming races.

Whatever the distance or difficulty of the obstacles, these races require a decent level of fitness.

Villepigue has been a personal trainer for over 20 years and gets his clients ready for races with workouts that focus more on time than a

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Obstacle from 16 certain number of repetitions. He gears workouts toward the movements they’ll need during the race, like building upper-body strength (to climb ropes), planking exercises that include dragging the lower body (for mud pit crawls), and running up and walking down steep hills.

Sandercock, who’s training for an Ironman Triathlon, focuses on running because the obstacles are often spread out, and cross training, working on cardio and strength so his energy doesn’t get sapped on the more difficult obstacles.

“It’s not easy,” said Villepigue, who lives in East Northport, NY, and has authored more than 20 fitness-related books.

“We have people who ran our race in Dallas last weekend — very athletic people — who said, ‘Man, I didn’t expect it to be that difficult.’ But it’s up to the person how hard they want to go at it.”

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Baskerville estimates that the group has provided a couple hundred quilts over the years to area nursing homes.

They also make other charity items: about 50

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porters. Everyone who could work on phone calls, putting up posters.”

Dad was never gone from the picture, but he kept in the background because of his role as a judge.

“Nathan is still his son, and he was very supportive of his decision to run,” Sarah said.

She said that conversations in the Baskerville home might include political issues, but her men know her well already and as a family they closely share the same values after all.

“I basically try to be myself, and they know me and know my stand,” Baskerville said. “I let them know how I feel about things.”

A wider conversation emanating from the younger generation of her clan, however, has come from some younger nephews asking, well, what about their quilts.

“I have made quilts for my sisters and my sisters’ daughters, made with their personalities and interests in mind,” Baskerville said. “Now nephews are wanting them because they’re jealous of their sisters.”

It’s not easy making quilts for men, though, “because they’re complicated, and you can’t go with the usual flowery designs. You have to find more masculine themes.”

She’s busy finding just the right fabrics to help define the lives of the men she loves.

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the quilting bee while working on their art is another attraction of the hobby. The members of the group could talk about almost anything as the quilt takes shape.

On some rare occasions they may even discuss the men in their lives.

“They are both very well-grounded men,” Baskerville said of her husband and her son.

“My husband came from a well-grounded family that believed in hard work and doing for yourself, and he instilled that in Nathan, too.”

She has a daughter who is married: Latoyia Baskerville Smith lives in Georgia, and she hopes first granddaughter, Elyse, is the first of several grandchildren.

The mother said she doesn’t pressure her son on his bachelor eligibility.

“I think it will work out,” she said. “I think there is a person for everyone, and he will find that person.”

The whole family, and a constellation of friends, rallied to the Nathan Baskerville campaign when he decided to run for the House of Representatives. One issue that the family had to work with was the fact that as a judge, Randolph could not be openly endorsing a candidate.

“Nathan talked with all of us about running,” she said. “His uncle, Leslie, has been there at every step, a constant advisor and one of Nathan’s greatest sup-

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stockings for area children’s homes this past Christmas. They have not decided on what to make yet, but their concentration for Christmas 2013 is the men’s shelter in Henderson.

“This year, we’ll be doing a project for them,” Baskerville said. “It might be quilts, or maybe knit hats, something. Every year we do a project for charity.”

She added the group will get started with the men’s shelter project pretty soon, because it is done through the year with a presentation planned for Christmastime.

In taking turns with each other’s quilting projects, the group moves through the year to another goal: a quilt show, with an invitation to the public to vote on a winning quilt for the year.

Quilting was a part of her Hoke County childhood as the youngest of eight children in a farming family, and she remembers her mother’s quilting as a break from the regular routines of outdoor work.

“We were farmers, just regular farmers,” she said, “from cotton to cucumbers, we would do farming.”

“My mom used to do it,” she added. “They used to go house to house as a quilting group and make each other’s quilts. I used to sneak under the quilt while they were working, and I would listen to them talk.”

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Spring Gardening Shawangunk Nature Preserve 255 Shawangunk Rd., Cold Brook, NY. 9-11 am.

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Bring proof of the pet’s vaccination history to receive a 3 year certificate. Dogs should be on a leash, cats & ferrets in a carrier. No exams will be given. Owners are responsible to clean up after their animals. $5 donation per pet is suggested to defray cost.

Pre-register online. Contact Herkimer County Public Health, 315-867-1176. On Internet at www. herkimercounty.org Tea in Celebration of 225th Birthday of the Town of German Flatts Gazebo on State Rte. 5S between Mohawk & Little Falls, near the historic Fort Herkimer Church. 1-3 pm.

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JUN 20 Rabies Clinic Newport Town Garage, 2788 Newport Rd., Newport, NY. 6-7:30 pm. All cats, dogs & ferrets 3 months old or older must be vaccinated even if they stay indoors. Bring proof of the pet’s vaccination history to receive a 3 year certificate. Dogs should be on a leash, cats & ferrets in a carrier. No exams will be given. Owners are responsible to clean up after their animals. $5 donation per pet is suggested to defray cost.

Pre-register online. Contact Herkimer County Public Health, 315-867-1176. On Internet at www. herkimercounty.org JUN 21 Solstice Butterfly & Nature Hunt Shawangunk Nature Preserve 255 Shawangunk Rd., Cold Brook, NY. 7 pm. Led by ornithologist, Matt Perry of Spring Farm Cares, we’ll look for butterflies, and listen for birds and other wild things which he’ll identify for us. (weather permitting Sun. June 23 is our alternate date) No fee. Call 315826-7405 or e-mail shawangunk@ntcnet.com.

JUN 22 Solstice Bike Hike Shawangunk Nature Preserve 255 Shawangunk Rd., Cold Brook, NY. 9-11 am.

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JUN 28 - SEP 3 “Betsy” Concert Series Lock 20 Canal Park, Rte. 49, Marcy, NY. • Jun 28 - 6:30 pm - Fritz’s Polka Band • July 5 - 6:30 pm - Country Traditions with The Streators • July 12 - 6:30 pm - The Clef Dwellers w/Don Cantwell featuring TJ Howard • July 19 - 6:30 pm - Dharma Burns String Band • July 20 - 6:30 pm - Pick ‘n EZ • July 26 - 6:30 pm - Old Country Music featuring the Nelson Brothers • Aug. 2 - 6:30 pm - Diamond Some Day w/Ed Vancott • Aug. 9 - 6:30 pm - Holidaye • Aug. 16 - 6:30 pm - Mardi Gras Five w/TJ Howard • Aug. 17 - 6:30 pm - The Roots of Rock & Roll • Aug. 23 - 6 pm - The Trinkaus Manor Quartet w/George Staley • Aug. 24 - 6 pm - Double Image • Aug. 30 - 6 pm - Country Gospel w/Julian & Bonnie George • Aug. 31 - 6 pm - The Mark Bolos Band • Sep. 3 - 1 pm Floyd Community Band, 3 pm Irish Day at Lock 20 featuring the Johnston School of Irish Dancing and the Butler Sheehan Academy, The Big Band sound of Easy Money and Koltis plus a fireworks extravaganza at dusk. All events are free. Bring your own blankets and/or lawn chairs.

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Pew survey questions Gen X, baby boomer savings

by Marley Seaman, AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — A research report by the Pew Charitable Trusts says younger baby boomers and Generation Xers face an uncertain retirement because of reduced savings, high levels of debt, and losses during the Great Recession.

The study found that members of Generation X, who are now between 38 and 47 years old, lost almost half their wealth between 2007 and 2010.

Young baby boomers, who are between 48 and 57, lost more money but a smaller portion of their overall wealth. The re-

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They also hold more debt than those groups did at similar points in their lives.

“Early boomers may be the last cohort on track to retire with enough savings and assets to maintain their financial security through their golden years,” said the authors.

The report is based on the Survey of Consumer Finances, which is conducted every three years by the Federal Reserve, and the Panel Study of

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Laura Romin, deputy field supervisor with the agency’s Utah Ecological Services Office, is among 61 people nationwide being recognized as a 2012 Recovery Champion.

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The agency says Romin oversaw creation of the Utah Prairie Dog Habitat Credit Exchange, a mitigation bank that promotes conservation while providing flexibility for stakeholders.

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18,995

3.6L 6 Cyl., Auto

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42,733 Miles

4.7L 8 Cyl., Auto

2010 DODGE RAM 1500

17,542 Miles

3.5L 6 Cyl., Auto

2010 DODGE AVENGER R/T

49,302 Miles

3.5L 6 Cyl., Auto

2010 DODGE CHARGER SXT

6,531 Miles

19,995

$

1.4L 4 Cyl., CD, Spoiler

28,995

$

2013 DODGE DART

12,491 Miles

4WD, 3.5L 6 Cyl., Auto

13,995

2012 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE

27,285 Miles

$

2.0L 4 Cyl., Auto

16,995

$

2010 DODGE CALIBER MAIN STREET

60,713 Miles

3.8L 6 Cyl., Auto

2008 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY TOURING

20,888

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$

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62,813 Miles

$

22,888

AWD, 4 Dr, 2.4L 4 Cyl

2010 GMC TERRAIN SLT-1

19,506 Miles

2LT, 1.8L 4 Cyl

2012 CHEVROLET SONIC SEDAN

55,678 Miles

Ext Cab, Short Box, 2WD, 6 Cyl

2009 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500

7,236 Miles

FWD, Manual

2013 CHEVROLET MALIBU LS

73,094 Miles

8,888 $

4Dr, 2.2L 4 Cyl, FWD, Manual

27,888 $

2006 CHEVROLET COBALT LS

23,701 Miles

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17,888

2012 CHEVROLET TRAVERSE AWD

15,719 Miles

$

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22,880

$

2012 CHEVROLET IMPALA LT

8,223 Miles

FWD, 3.0L 6 Cyl., Auto, AC, Tilt

2012 CHEVROLET CAPTIVA LT

28,441 Miles

14,900 $

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29,900 $

2012 FORD FOCUS SE

18,255 Miles

AWD, 3.5L 6 Cyl

20,900 $

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34,338 Miles

4WD, 2.5L 4 Cyl

15,450

2011 FORD ESCAPE XLT

44,294 Miles

$

V6, CD

2009 FORD MUSTANG COUPE

25,013 Miles

18,900 $

FWD, 2.5L 4 Cyl

15,900 $

2012 FORD FUSION SE

7,216 Miles

FWD, 1.6L 4 Cyl

27,900 $

3.5L 6 Cyl

2012 FORD FIESTA SEL

63,613 Miles

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52,432 Miles

FWD, 3.5L 6 Cyl

2009 FORD FLEX SE

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